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| Act:2 Scene:2a | Baloo Higgins' Study, Five Months Later | |
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Baloo and Flossie are sitting on either side of the table, as before.
Colonel Pickering is slouched down in the big comfy armchair with a glass of
brandy and the bottle within easy reach. The previous few months have brought
about significant changes in Colonel Pickering, who has been exceedingly
impressed by Baloo Higgins amazing and apparently limitless ability and
willingness to provide hospitality and brandy. This state of affairs has
brought about a sincere, though largely alcohol induced, affection for the bear,
which has often led Colonel Pickering to swear strange and mostly incomprehensible
oaths of blood-brotherhood. He is rarely sober these days (not since June, when
he went to bed one night and forgot to get up again for a week).
Flossie has concluded that Colonel Pickering is probably not a relation, thereby avoiding the personal embarrassment and shame he would otherwise feel.
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| Baloo: | The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. | |
| Flossie: | Baaa! | |
| Baloo: | No. No. No. Listen carefully. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. | |
| Flossie: | Baaa! | |
| Col. Pickering: | Give it up, Higgins. It's a lost cause. The sheep takes after its mother. Lucky Sheep Dip, we used to call her. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean? | |
| Baloo didn't know and very much suspected that he didn't want to. Flossie resents the implied disrespect for mum, though the young sheep is unsure in what way exactly the disrespect is meant. | ||
| Baloo: | The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. | |
| Flossie: | Baaa! | |
| Colonel Pickering helps himself to another brandy and then another. Slowly the room and it's two mad occupants fades comfortingly into the background, whilst the Colonel fades the other way into a gentle and familiar alcoholic unconsciousness. | ||
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